If you've had biology for non-majors, this is an outstanding 13 minutes on testing. (Make mine IgG Antibodies, please. I'll pay a reputable clinic out-of-pocket.)

But afterwards, consider the links here.

All the Trumpsters have been guzzling caustic cleansers overnight, right?

Loyalty. Very good. All the best people.

"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." 3/10/20

A little context would be useful.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/media-erupt-over-trump-comments-on-disinfectant-heres-what-he-said.amp

What Goldilocks And The Three Bears was really about:

https://twitter.com/Papa_Bray/status/1252063981113466880

As we get desperate, we'll start grasping at straws.

If you're not getting enough crazy on GOOP, try PURIST. Blogger Cristina Cuomo (Chris' wife) credits bleach baths and vitamin drips for her improvement from COVID-19.

Only "natural medicine" for her:

Cuomo says she adds "½ cup ONLY of Clorox" to her bathwater to "combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it."

"We want to neutralize heavy metals because they slow-up the electromagnetic frequency of our cells, which is our energy field, and we need a good flow of energy," Cuomo explains.

She adds there is "no danger in doing this," comparing it to "a simple naturopathic treatment."

When did bleach become "natural?"

The CDC advises against bleach as a treatment in general and specifically as an internal treatment, "And don't even think about drinking bleach...." The Dead Milkmen will be sooo disappointed.

So, you're saying "Fox News" has a perspective to offer on this latest lunacy? Well!

Maybe she's using an oxygenating bleach? also, remember that when someone says "naturopathic" they mean I'm a sucker, and it is morally wrong for you to allow me to keep my money.

Speaking of bleach… The release of this podcast yesterday is a horrifying but poignant cowinkydoodle.

And, typing these words, it kind of makes me wonder if there was a family event in the 1950's — some whispered scuttlebutt among aunts and elder girlcousins — which made the Orange Shitweasel call to mind noxious cleansers ending problems within the human body.

After all, he never learned anything after the 8th grade.

This is just not the day for Trumpistas to smirk about Lefty woo-woo.

I think it was about two years ago that I told a former classmate that, very likely, Trump was trying to convince people not to vote for him again because he was sick and tired of the job but wasn't about to say so.

Lenona, there are those who argued that he'd have been content to have lost in 2016, since the campaign would have reinvigorated his game-show brand anyway.

And here we are.

Does anyone remember the Star Trek Ferenghi? That was almost precisely the hour I stopped watching all television (at less than my hourly rate)… The day a fiction writer affirmed that stupid people could somehow accomplish interstellar travel.

In a fascinating chapter, Hoving described a characteristic often seen the in the most powerful art: It includes representation of the best AND the worst aspects of its time.

Ladies & Gentlemen, may I present The Movie of the Week: Here's Burt Bacharach at his Bacharachiest.

(Brilliant composer; as an arranger,
 hopelessly trapped between Sinatra 
 and the Beatles/Hendrix.)

Apple fans everywhere can rejoice.

The Lost Apple Project has been trekking around the Pacific Northwest finding lost apple varieties, usually from abandoned pioneer orchards, for a few years now.

I think that's pretty neato.

Hot Summer days + lawn chair + naked man = Trouble

NSFW BTW

https://twitter.com/XavierKotaro/status/1252076795320393735

There was this book: Apples are especially prone to mutation, or whatever genetic tomfoolery makes a plant unlikely to grow as did its forebears. You can't grab fruit from the fifth generation seedling of a old tree and trust that it will be digestible, let alone edible. The contemporary Red Delicious and Gala and Pink Lady are victories of attentive farming over nature.

In pioneer America, that didn't matter: Whatever dropped from the limb could be made into *cider*.

Hell-looo, Johnny Appleseed....

He's encouraging people to think outside the box. But there's a problem with that. Nobody laughed at Semmelweis. They put him in an insane asylum and beat him to death while the Great and Good nodded approvingly. Don't get crossways with settled science.
I'm old enough to know from personal experience that the medical people like to introduce light into your innards by throat and other paths. Seen a guided tour of one organ on a flat screen.
So if the frequency is changed from the visible spectrum to far-UV, would it help. Does anybody here have thirty years in the particular law of physics which proves, absolutely proves, it wouldn't work?
If it worked, Orangemanbad would get credit and better thousands should die. See the Detroit dems reproacning a member who said Trump's help with HCL saved her life.

Um, "settled science"? You're not suggesting, are you, that doctors really thought there was nothing left to discover in the early 19th century?

I had the impression that the main reason they rejected Semmelweis was that he was, quite rightly, accusing unhygienic doctors of manslaughter, to put it politely. (He even once said "God knows how many mothers I have brought into the grave!")

That is, he managed to bring down the death rate in his OWN maternity ward almost to zero by hand-washing, but he didn't understand how it worked, which may well have been another main reason doctors rejected him.

And while he may have been beaten at some point, he died in the asylum of sepsis, not a beating, per se.

Though to be fair, in 1881, 16 years after S's death in 1865, most scholars now agree that President James A. Garfield died not from his assassin's bullet, but from all the probing of doctors' unwashed hands. (He died 11-plus weeks after being shot.) It probably wasn't until 1890 that ALL doctors in the US and Europe took the germ theory seriously!

Oddly, I once heard that while Florence Nightingale took hygiene seriously enough, she didn't really believe in the germ theory. At least not early in her career.

Crid, I think I heard about that, maybe in the summer of 2016.

At any rate, Michael Wolff certainly spelled out the same theory on the last page of chapter 1 of "Fire and Fury" (2018).

Richard, there are a large number of biocide (life killing) techniques. UV radiation is one of them. It is effective on COVID-19 but at the same dose it is also effective on humans under the skin. Same with bleach. The skin is a great organ that protects us from a wide range of such issues.

So no, don't run a UV light down your throat or drink even diluted bleach. It won't help. Using an air filter with a UV light or cleaning counter tops with bleach are how those products should be used.

That said, remember bushisms? You can go back further if you want. The truth is most politicians aren't that well informed. Quite frankly they usually aren't that bright either. But somehow it is only Republican politicians that major media groups like to call out on things like this. You don't hear much about Nancy Pelosi wanting to get us off of hydrocarbons and onto natural gas (a hydrocarbon). Unfortunately for Crid he isn't that bright either, what with his wearing coffee filters and all that. Not to mention his inability to read sources he presents.

"So if the frequency is changed from the visible spectrum to far-UV, would it help."

The biological effects of various types of UV light have been studied and are well understood. Please do NOT apply them to anything that is part of you.

Ben, you're making shit up. Presumably you're not wearing a mask yet, nor are you maintaining distance from others, but are coughing your guts out at everyone. Is that how the aunt got sick? Got to close in your centralized clearinghouse.

> most scholars now agree that
> President James A. Garfield died
> not from his assassin's bullet,
> but from all the probing of
> doctors' unwashed hands.

Compared to the language of a now-vanished Twitterer a few years ago, your wording sorta sugar coats it… It came to me as "Reminder— that one time we shoved whiskey and beef bouillon up a president's butt until he died:"

In addition to causing sepsis by probing the wound with unsterile hands and instruments, Garfield’s doctors did him a disservice by strictly limiting his solid food intake, believing that the bullet might have pierced his intestines, said Dr. Rutkow, the author of “James A. Garfield,” a book in the American Presidents Series.

In mid-August, the doctors insisted that Garfield be fed rectally, and he received beef bouillon, egg yolks, milk, whiskey and drops of opium in this manner.

“They basically starved him to death,” said Dr. Rutkow, noting that the president lost over 100 pounds from July to September.

I made nothing up Crid. You should learn how to read sources you cite instead of just trusting the twitter headline.

And probably stop picking fights for no good reason. But would you still be Crid if you did? Hmm.

I find it bizarre that there's no explanation in the article as to why doctors would believe that one could "feed" a patient that way - or when that belief ended!

> stop picking fights

Strike as unresponsive.

1. (It's more about ending the ones picked recklessly by others.)
   
   
2. Are you wearing masks? Why?
   
   
3. Have a cite saying I wear coffee filters?

> bizarre

I doubt the understanding of the GI tract was very advanced. They knew the surfaces could accept nutrients, but not much about how or where.

Our humility continues! Consider what's going on with another critical and literally convoluted absortive surface this very week— lungs:

In the subgroup of RT-PCR-positive and CT-positive patients, ground-glass opacities (GGO) were present in 58/58 (100%), multilobe and posterior involvement were both present in 54/58 (93%), bilateral pneumonia in 53/58 (91%), and subsegmental vessel enlargement (> 3 mm) in 52/58 (89%) of study participants.

+p. I'll make it up to you.

Oddly, I once heard that while Florence Nightingale took hygiene seriously enough, she didn't really believe in the germ theory. At least not early in her career. ~ Lenona at April 24, 2020 2:47 PM

Nightingale created a now-famous chart demonstrating that more soldiers died from disease than from wounds in battle. "Once the military looked at that eloquent graph, the modern army hospital system was inevitable."

"Does anybody here have thirty years in the particular law of physics which proves, absolutely proves, it wouldn't work?"

Wow.

No. Absolutely no one has studied the properties of light or organic tissue.

They were too busy building lasers of a few dozen kinds, the Large Hadron Collider, detecting planets around other stars, determining radioactive decay chains, mapping currents under the surface of the Sun, detecting the cometary tail of the Moon....

/sarc

You would do well to observe a copy of Nuclides and Isotopes, by GE Nuclear Energy, or its equivalent and note the properties of the materials described within. It's at about 723 Dewey in your local library.

Or you could look at engineeringtoolbox.com or nist.gov. The way things work is revealed by how they are described.

You asked for a negative. What you CAN do is explain the properties of organic matter, light and their interaction, and if you want you can extend the examination into ionizing radiation. Be ready for big numbers and new concepts found in ordinary engineering and medical work.